New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

right now it can't handle dual layers...the burner can, but its not setup to...
and from what i've heard, most dvd players can't play the dual-layers created by computers anyways...
but yea, you'll have to split the file, or recompress, to burn with showburner..
[both easily done with mencoder or other tools]

i have a DL burner but no dl media to test with...
you can edit the batch to allow it but i have no idea whether it will work, as not sure if dvdauthor can create the split..never saw any options for it..
better off burning really large ones like that with a reg. commercial software to do the split seamlessly..
sorry..

[soccerdad]

I just installed this really cool extra to get even more funtionality out of GBPVR . It worked great out of the box except the recording seems to be compressed. The audio is fine but the video looks like some oldtime movie with much lower frame rate. The MPEG file was 1.95gb and the burned disk is 1.41 gb. Are there any additional settings I need to use?

[soccerdad]

ahhh, may be an easier way to do it...i'm pretty sure it's a mux problem, basically just make sure you're recording at proper frame size/rate, and if there's an option in ati drivers to output a dvd type file then you should set that there..
not sure don't have one of those..

other than that, to re-compress, go into video library and highlight your file and hit 'transcode' button, you should see a popup listing profiles to use on file..
i don't think gbpvr built in profiles have anything that makes it dvd compatible..
so you'd have to add a line in config.xml...

open config.xml in notepad, go down to <CustomFFmpegConversions> section,
insert this as new line under that:
EDIT: added -ab 128 for bitrate of audio..

Code:

<Conversion name="Make DVD ready"  cmd=" -y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -sc_threshold 1000000000  -flags +cgop+ildct -target ntsc-dvd -f dvd -b 3000k -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec mp2 -ab 128 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".new.mpg" />

and then use 'transcode' button with that profile 'Make dvd ready' on your files...it will create new one with name originalname.new.mpg..
burn those .new.mpg files as they should work fine..

I found this. Do you think this is my problem and solution?

[pastro]

I found this. Do you think this is my problem and solution?

I wouldn't think so since you use a Hauppauge card. I'm pretty sure they output DVD compatible files to begin with. PBS will probably know what's going on. I have never noticed the quality getting worse. In fact it usually looks a little better playing on my DVD player.

[pBS]

yea, ffmpeg doesn't do anything to the video when it adds them,just takes out some padding and inserts the vobu sectors, doesn't touch the audio either..
the recompression option should only theoreticaly make it worse..[make dvd ready]

it also may be that dvd players don't offer the video 'smoothing' and other postprocessing that you would see on a computer screen, plus it's a much better video out usually so you see more details...
but yea a pvr150 card output shouldn't need anything done to it...
the smaller file size is expected, but what's taken out isn't video or audio data, just parts of the mux packets....

if you use vmr on computer there's lots of filtering applied that makes high compression look better..
overlay looks about the same as dvd player tho...and most dvd players use an overlay video scheme for output....
play the dvd on computer and see if it looks different..

[soccerdad]

Thanks for the input. I misled you with my sig. This was some stuff I recorded off my DVB-S card, using another program. The program has a check box for dvd ready, but I don't think I had it checked at the time. It is likely that it has something to do with how I recorded it. No biggie, I won't record using those settings anymore. I just am trying to learn all of this.

[ecdhyne]

Thank you. Back to my original problem. I was able find my file to burn, and selected add for DVD burning which gave me a response that it was added and how many gbs the file is but after that I don't see the other command :

burn DVD
delete file from dvd burnlist
delete all from DVD burnlist
read dvd-que and total size

Where are they? Do I have to install other plug-ins?

[pastro]

Thank you. Back to my original problem. I was able find my file to burn, and selected add for DVD burning which gave me a response that it was added and how many gbs the file is but after that I don't see the other command :

burn DVD
delete file from dvd burnlist
delete all from DVD burnlist
read dvd-que and total size

Where are they? Do I have to install other plug-ins?

No they should be there as well. Every time you select a transcode option it repositions the cursor off your file. You have to go back to the right and reselect it again.

Remember to clear the list before you burn another DVD.

Btw, if you play the file and stop it, whatever image you stopped on, shows up on the menu page of the DVD you burn.

[pBS]

left, right arrows... in dialog, if you select the line for profiles, then hit left/right arrows you can change the profile...does divx/xvid/etc come up? if so then the burndvd options should be in there as well...

[jim08127]

Just trying out Showburner, I might be doing something stupid, I am getting errors from GraphicsMagick in my event log, and the videos are not moved into the temp directory. Image burn launches and just says it can't find the video_ts directory (it isn't being created cause I guess GM.exe is crashing.)

Heres the message from the event log:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( GraphicsMagick ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: 20070411161526 0:01 0.188 1076 annotate.c RenderFreetype 1164 Resource Error Memory allocation failed (arial.ttf)

Now is this cause ffmpeg is not doing its thing first? I see the process running for a a short time, then GM.exe starts and ends abruptly. :confused: